Comments on: Calling a DLL with PHP

By: lawrence

lawrence — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:44:40 +0000

I think we have to rememer that all DLLs cannot be registered or use .NET. I’m just now looking to do the same. I’ve called dlls from other scripting languages in the past. I’m sure I’ll find an answer.

I just wanted to mention that when working with third party dlls that all cannot be registered and developers should either code a wrapper that can be registered of document how they can be used otherwise.

By: aruna

aruna — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:59:27 +0000

iam trying to call c++ dll in php.
while creating a COM object iam getting error,can’t create COM object..like this…

Is it mandatory to register the dll into system to use that dll in php.
and how to write wrapper for that dll to use those functions in php..
if anybody knows ,please clarify this.
Thanks..

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:00:35 +0000

Jenny,

I’m not sure I’ll be much help. If I remember correctly, this only worked with some dll’s I tried and not all but I could have done something wrong. Also, I think if the dll couldn’t get registered with the system then I was not able to use them in PHP.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:29:16 +0000

Hi, I was wondering if you can do the following:

I have the dll of an application, this application reads two-dimensional bar codes using a webcam and decodes them to show a result, when I download the dll that came with examples of its use in vb.net, c++ y c #, but not in php . Now I need to use this application and return me the number that stores the bar code.

Hope some advisement from you… the application is QuickMark

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:39:12 +0000

Hey Eric, when I tried this I had to register the dll. To be honest, I don’t remember how much time I spent trying without registering but it was how I was able to get it to work. I don’t remember what the documentation says but I would assume as long as you pass a correct path to the file it should have worked. I don’t know if this helps you but there seems to be a .net class object that may help you but it also uses com I believe: http://us.php.net/manual/en/class.dotnet.php

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:16:59 +0000

This is possible to do without register the dll?
Is possible to do without using the COM class?

Thank you.

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:47:53 +0000

Hi Alfred,

PHP can only access what is in the server and not the client so if you would need to make sure the dll is available to PHP on the server side where the PHP code relies.

By: alfred co

alfred co — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:24:05 +0000

i am a newbie on php, i wanted to ask if this sample could access the dll installed in the client machine or the server